Bill Text: TX SB816 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the possession and administration of certain vaccines by a home and community support services agency or its employees.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-22 - Co-author authorized [SB816 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-SB816-Introduced.html
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By: Buckingham | S.B. No. 816 |
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relating to the possession and administration of certain vaccines | ||
by a home and community support services agency or its employees. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 142.0062(a), Health and Safety Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) A home and community support services agency or its | ||
employees who are registered nurses or licensed vocational nurses | ||
may purchase, store, or transport for the purpose of administering | ||
to the agency's employees, home health or hospice patients, or | ||
patient family members under physician's standing orders the | ||
following dangerous drugs: | ||
(1) hepatitis B vaccine; | ||
(2) influenza vaccine; | ||
(3) tuberculin purified protein derivative for | ||
tuberculosis testing; [ |
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(4) pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine; and | ||
(5) any other vaccine approved by the United States | ||
Food and Drug Administration to treat or mitigate the spread of a | ||
communicable disease, as defined by Section 81.003. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
Act takes effect September 1, 2021. |